History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To ThePresent Time, Volume 10 (of 12), by S. RappoportThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 10 (of 12)Author: S. RappoportRelease Date: December 16, 2005 [EBook #17330]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM 330 ***Produced by David WidgerHISTORY OF EGYPTFrom 330 B.C. to the Present TimeBy S. RAPPOPORT, Doctor of Philosophy, Basel; Member of the EcoleLangues Orientales, Paris; Russian, German, French Orientalist andPhilologistVOL. X.Containing over Twelve Hundred Colored Plates and IllustrationsTHE GROLIER SOCIETYPUBLISHERS, LONDON[Illustration: Spines][Illustration: Cover][Illustration: Frontispiece]OSIRIS AND ISIS AND THE FOUR CHILDREN OF HORUS WITHIN A SHRINE.[Illustration: Titlepage]PREFACEProfessor Maspero closes his History of Egypt with the conquest ofAlexander the Great. There is a sense of dramatic fitness in thisselection, for, with the coming of the Macedonians, the sceptre ofauthority passed for ever out of the hand of the Egyptian. For severalcenturies the power of the race had been declining, and foreign nationshad ...